[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

A gentle smack on the hand is hardly violence. To call it violence is a highly dramatic imo, and I'm quite happy to say I think that to equate a gentle smack as violence, is wrong.

I don't think it is strange. You do. Viva la difference and all that.

A "gentle" smack? Again........for it to have any kind of effective on the child it has to hurt them
I don't agree with hitting old people or disabled people either, am I right about that? I see no difference with hitting kids, they're all the most vulnerable members of our society.